The death of Irinevok (Redemption of Marek TP)
Mossflower Woods
The trees here are mostly elm, with a smattering of dogwood and a single large oak. There is a rocky outcrop just large enough for a single grown beast to rest on that is bordered by tall grass and weeds. The edges of the stone have been worn smooth by countless rainfalls.
Exits: [S]outh, [N]orth, [W]est
Irinevok the mouse. Boaz the hawk. Marek the stoat. DoraRose the mouse. Emyuil, another mouse. Various spoofed minions (and, no, they're not the funny/annoying little yellow guys from Despicable Me).
Irinevok walks along the path in the woods. He has come across some otters and there was a fight so he lost some of his men , but the otters also lost a few beasts and then the mouse retreated into the woods as he has other plans and other goals to deal with first.
Marek is also in the woods, tracking the insane mouse once and for all. He is still very alert, though a little weak from not eating hardly the past few days. He has taken care to at least have some water in a flash he carries with him and takes a drink of that. His crossbow, with bolts , is with him as well as daggers and a small sword. He keeps his eyes and ears open for any signs and sounds of beasts around.
Boaz is of course flying around from tree to tree. He stays hidden best he can.
DoraRose is searching the woods also...alone. She has her bastard sword attached to her back and her double-headed, double pawed black battleaxe, Nightsong, in her paws. Even though she's wearing light armour, she is feeling slightly overheated. Pausing to remove her helmet she looks around, biting her lip as she silently wishes for the 10th time today that she was a better tracker.
Irinevok is near the mousemaid right now, and he has maybe 8 rats with him and a couple weasels. Other beasts are elsewhere maybe. "We need to find a better place for my plans, for chaos."
Marek cusses to himself as he about trips over a fallen log, yeah he should of stayed in Ferravale to better recover but he wants the mouse dead and soon, it needs to pay and pay soon. He slows as he thinks he hears movement and slips behind a tree and peers around carefully.
Boaz tilts his head and flaps around, he spies a lone rat and dives at it. The rat doesn't have time to scream as it finds death in the talons of the hawk without much of a fight. The hawk looks back and forth and decides its a good time as any for a snack, but he also stays alert and listening to possible danger.
DoraRose ties the helmet onto her belt with a slipknot and continues on, coming within feet of the crazy mouse and his group. She can, however, not see them. Pausing again, she scratches her ear and mutters aloud, "Stupid forest making it stupid hard to find one stupid mouse. Where in the woodlands could he be?"
Irinevok stops and singles for his group to stay where they are as he hears the mousemaid and grins, he looks around and spots her and chuckles as he goes to slip behind her and if he is lucky, grab her.
Marek is not too close to the group just yet as he is still looking for a clue as to where they are. He is a little off today as he probably needs rest and to eat something, he has water but that only lasts so long.
Boaz tilts his head as he makes a soft clacking sound with his beak and suddenly flies upwards to get a higher view of the ground, looking between the tree tops for hints of any kind of movement what so ever.
DoraRose has her back to her enemy, and she's feeling too light-headed still from the stifling heat of the helmet to be really aware of her surroundings. Frowning, she hefts her axe and starts to turn around...
Irinevok is ready for any movement and he moves his tail for a couple rats to get on either side of the mouse maid as he speaks "Hello...such a lovely mouse out all alone, how unfortunate, for you my dear"
Marek gets close to where the group is now and narrows his eyes, he is close to one of the weasels and loads a crossbolt and fires it right at one of the weasels and is soon loading a 2nd to take out the other weasel . He still has fairly good aim, even when he is tired.
Boaz flies over and into a tree, he watches the rats and the mouse and puffs out his feathers, his talons gripping the tree branch he holds onto.
Marek is not alone...There's a bellow and the undergrowth explodes as Emyuil comes hurtling out of the background to impact one of the burly rats. He immediately begins dueling the two rats at once, trying to get to Irinevok, but he's outnumbered.
DoraRose narrows her eyes and faces the other mouse, mentally berating herself for not paying better attention. "Irinevok. How nice to see you. I've been wanting to meet like this for weeks now. I brought something for you." She yanks the helmet off her belt and throws it at him, then leaps forward and swings her axe at him, aiming to lop off an arm.
Irinevok barely sidesteps, the helmet knocks out a rat as he narrows his eyes, "Kill her!" He then gasps as the two weasels go down, a crossbolt in one chest and one has a crossbolt in the back he looks around quickly as he hisses at the many rats here "Well grab her! Kill her and Kill the stoat find him!"
About 4 of the rats see the mouse Emyuil and go to attack him, a couple rats get beheaded by the wild mouse that seems to have come out of nowhere. A growl as Irinevok says something and some other helpers come to help, two foxes. So a lot of rats and a couple foxes are on his side.
Marek smirks as he loads one last crossbolt and tries to sneak around to get a better angle at only one target..Irinevok! He has yet to fire as he needs a good aim and he doesn't want to hit anyone else.
Boaz makes a loud sound and dives at one rat, the rat manages to get a cut on the birds upper talon but still gets claws badly by the hawk.
Emyuil is slipping into the Half-Rat persona now. His eyes are cold, dead, merciless spheres of darkness. Blood spurts out of his victims, staining his face, and he laughs. He laughs cruelly, maniacally, and prepares for Bloodwrath to overtake him. He whirls his sword in an arc, slashing down through another two of the rats and seriously wounding, if not killing, them. He grabs the headless corpse of one of his first victims and hurls it in the path of the other two rats to slow them down so he can get in a more favorable position. He lunges aside.
DoraRose swipes at one of the beasts attacking her with her axe, then screams as the lower 2-thirds of her tail gets chopped off. Stumbling slightly, she whips around and goes to behead the beast that did it, then follows Irinevok as best as she can. Her eyes start to turn red as the Bloodwrath begins to overtake her.
Irinevok chuckles insanely as he watches the mousemaid like some sort of prey..."Who are you? Well that matters not you shall die today." He says coldly as he goes to draw a blade and attack her. Meanwhile some of his rats still fight Emyuil, one more rat dies but their leader seems to not care at all. He is insanely enjoying this fight a little too much.
Marek still has his crossbolt aimed and grumbles about maids in the way of his line of fire and moves so he can better aim at Irinevok.
Boaz looks towards where Dorarose is and goes to dive bomb one of the rats and grabs a rat and takes him to drop him in the river. Sadly this rat has no clue how to swim and gets washed away to his doom downstream. The hawk then flies back to the area where the battle is.
Emyuil laughs again, louder, then he hears his sister's scream and snaps back to being Emyuil. "DIE. ALL OF YOU, DIE!" he snarls, whipping around to bisect another rat. He tackles another to the ground, stabs him in the throat, rips his sword out, spraying blood everywhere, and moves on. He spots Irinevok and starts fighting his way that way, hacking relentlessly through the enemy.
The Warriormaid blocks her enemy's first strike and growls in his face, "I am DoraRose Strongheart, wife of Leon Master Healer of Redwall. I am the daughter of Farrer Strongpaw. I hail from Tuscani, and I'm going to KILL YOU!" She swings at his neck, eyes red with Berserker's rage.
Irinevok may not spot Marek but his two foxes do and they go to fight with the stoat, as does a rat that was near by the stoat. Meanwhile Irinevok "Oh I met him once, he plays such a nice game of tag, he lost I believe." He smiles coldly and goes to throw a rat at her, yeah the rat will most likely die. He goes to try and swing at her side and kick her in the chest so she falls backwards. "This...is...fun"
Marek starts to fire as he has a good aim and the two foxes attack. The crossbolt bangs off a tree and hits another tree. He fights the foxes with a growl and snarl. He manages to kill one fox but the other gets the upper paw and knocks Marek out. Both the fox still alive and Marek are fairly badly wounded.
Boaz flies into the air and goes to dive at the fox , aiming to kill if its possible.
Emyuil vaults over another corpse and bull-rushes Irinevok. "IS _THIS_ FUN?!" he roars as he intercepts Irinevok's thrown rat in mid-air, cleaving the rat in two. He lets the pieces of rat fall to either side of him and stands between Irinevok and his sister. "How about _this_?" he demands as he lunges with a quick flick of the wrist set to carve a circle in Irinevok's guts.
DoraRose is so mad now, she just goes to shove her brother out of the way. "Leon's still alive, you crazy, idiotic half-baked excuse for a mouse! I'd call that a clear win, moron!" she goes to kill a rat that dared get within striking distance, then continues to advance upon her enemy. "He's MINE, Emyuil!" she growls as she swings at the crazy beast.
Irinevok sidesteps and Emyuil manages to chop off his sword paw as he screams, he makes a sound a mouse shouldn't and then goes with lightning speed to try and grab the mousemaid by the throat and he hopes do some harm to her or maybe death either be fun! The fox the bird dives at screams as talons sink into its chest and then its throat, the fox falls over dead. A few rats still live and go attack the other male mouse, around maybe 5 rats.
Boaz puffs out and shakes his talons of the foxy mess and looks to where Dorarose and her brother is and goes to fly above them, judging a right angle to try and sink talons into Irinevok.
Emyuil whips around and the impact between him and the rats is something like when you throw watermelons under a lawn mower: messy. The bits and pieces of rat fall to the ground. "Get. AWAY FROM HER!" Emyuil lunges in again, not even bothering with his sword now. Now he's using his teeth, paws, nails, everything--trying to rip out Irinevok's guts.
DoraRose was finished with her swing when her enemy grabbed her throat, so she just lets the axe fall from her grasp as her paws move to try and remove his paw from her throat. She literally can't breathe, and it only takes a few moments before her lips and ears turn purple from lack of oxygen. Her blood loss coming from her truncated tail isn't helping, either. Her clawing and whacking at him get noticeably feebler as she gets close to passing out.
Irinevok grins as he keeps his grip on her throat, clearly enough to make her pass out, he chuckles insanely now as he is enjoying this, he will only let go after her eyes close, he doesn't check to see if she is dead as he figures she is dead, "And now...the other one." And now 3 rats are alive.
Boaz is peeved, very and he will take the chance when Irinevok moves away from Dorarose as he speaks "Mouseie is bad mousy. Boaz hate you!!!" His talons out as he aims to grab the mouse and get a good grip on him, then if he gets him give him a free ride into the air...how far he is unsure yet. "No hurt friends, Boaz hurt you!!"
Emyuil's eyes are blanked out almost. He's drifting, dream-like....He thrusts his blade into Irinevok, ripping it upward through the mouse's side. "DIE. DIE. DIE. DIE. DIE. DIE!" [At least, that's what he tried to do. If he succeeded, it went] across the mouse's side, but failing to cut very deep. There's lots of blood though and Emyuil is about to whirl around his sword to finish the job.
DoraRose's eyes roll back as she slumps, unconscious. Her eyes close, and she becomes a dead weight in his paw. She is still alive, but barely.
Irinevok smirks, "Dead...mouse...." He gasps as the blade from the other mouse enters his side, twice and goes to kick at Emyuil's head at about this same time he feels the talons enter his back and chest and tenses up as the bird manages to lift him into the air and away from the mousemaid's brother who seems almost as insane as he is "Release me at once!" He gets out as blood goes down onto the ground, it's from himself.
Boaz only grips tighter and flies higher with the mouse and then looks at him "Badddddddddddd mousie!!!!!!" He then flaps even higher and lets the mouse drop from his talons, yeah that will hurt when he lands.
Irinevok manages a scream as he falls, and he lands on the ground and its clear he is dead from that high of a fall.
The bloodlust fades from Emyuil's eyes as he watches Irinevok fall and he spots DoraRose. He dives to her side, on his knees. "'rose....'rose wake up!" He curses to himself now, for not remembering anything about healing. "Wish Angela were here," he murmurs. "Wake up!" He shakes her gently.
Boaz flaps down and lands beside the two mice and tilts his head "Friend mouseie alives?" He looks at the dead Irinevok, hmmms he could eat him but later as this is not a good time to eat in front of others and then he decides to just let the evil mouse rot, he would most likely taste horrible. Boaz quickly flies off "Boaz get help Boaz will!!!"
DoraRose is still unconscious, and a beauty of a bruise is forming on her throat. The bleeding from her tail stump has miraculously stopped, but she still is in pretty bad shape.
Emyuil is crying freely now. "Don't leave. Don't leave, wake up!" He can't tell if she's dead or alive still in his confusion. He shakes her by the shoulder again. "'rose. Don't leave me here alone."
DoraRose groans, then coughs horribly as she wakes up. She opens her eyes, then gently touches her throat. She's in obvious pain.
Emyuil helps his sister upright. "No point going anywhere till help arrives," he mutters. He moves her towards a tree to lean on carefully, one arm over her shoulders to help her walk. "Easy now...easy..."
DoraRose holds her throat with one paw and her forehead with the other. She leans against the tree until help arrives. When they get back to Redwall, she goes and rests in the Infirmary for the next few days. About 5 days, actually. She needs a rest.
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